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- tory0
quit whining a take a break
- utopian0
The average worker in my studio has maybe 4 breaks a day to browse the Internet and log-on to QBN of about 10 minutes. So that's 40 minutes a day. Which over a year is 9120 minutes, which is 152 hours which works out as over 6 days of trolling time a year!
6 DAYS!
I want 6 extra days of holiday for not trolling during work hours.
Although, maybe I already use that time on QBN, who knows. Just thought I'd put this info out there
- Jnr_Madison0
I love getting under non-smokers skin.
- It's the lack of yellowing and tar stains on the skin that make it so easy to get underlocustsloth
- I only have one yellow finger and that was not from smoking but fingering mistermik.Jnr_Madison
- mikotondria30
When I was a smoker, and worked in an office, I would take 4 or 5 smoke breaks a day, and never feel the need to justify the fact that I needed a little break, to get away from the tasks at hand, have a little reset and a relax, and come back to the office refreshed and revved up for the job.
I would grudginly ignore the non smokers with their white teeth and ability to stay inside for 8 hours, and their little 'hand waves', which, combined with an exaggerated wrinkling of the nose, and a derogatory 'sniff', meant that they could smell the smoke on me, and didn't like it or approve.
Well guess what - I'd think, you're fucking ugly and I have to look at your stupid fat fucking face all day, but you don't catch me screwing up my petulant little face-hole everytime your foul photons leak into my eyes like 2nd hand ugliness, do I ?
Then I became a non-smoker, with white teeth, and sometimes a little hand-wave. Honestly, it really does fucking stink - bad.. You all look ridiculous, unable to go through one minor stress, or a whole hour or 2 without nipping outside to chuff away - I turn round to ask you something - something I need to know, and that you in your capacity as [your position] need to be there to tell me, and you're outside on the pavement in the rain - it fucks me up. Then you come in smelling like you've trodden in something, and breathe your stupidity exhaust all over me like it's friggin phosgene, and it near makes me gag, and I tell you in fervently righteous terms that - I - am - non - smoker, and - you - are - inferior..
Fuck the people that have never smoked, they can't play this game of officially sanctioned rudeness, but I was an horrifically addicted helpless junkie smoker for 15 years, and I never thought I'd be able to quit because I would pick up cigarette butts in gas stations, or old cigars from the trash and smoke it and feel worthless and helpless and stupid because of my addiction, and I will always be this way, everyday, for the rest of my life, so I CAN play like this, cause I was worse than all of you, out there with your dozen weak puffs on a low-tar Menthol cigarette, 3 times a day - I was the king of foulness and shame and I kicked it, so fuck you if you don't like my little hand waves or my sycophantic underhanded little gripes about your god-given right just to fuck off the job whenver your weak frazzled little nerves get the better of you. Sit down, do the work, don't stink, and smoke on your own time when I don't have to watch your pathetic attempts to control yourselves.- *I don't really have a problem with smokers, or smoking, I just need to vent to keep myself 'sober', and not smoking.mikotondria3
- loljuhls
- tldrJnr_Madison
- moth0
See how stressed the "nons" are?
Stress causes cancer too ;)
- kingsteven0
I land about half my contracts on smoke breaks.
- Are you a hooker?Kiko
- haha Kikojuhls
- lolzzzzThePublics
- omg a hooker!!!e-pill
- pencilpants0
it's even cooler if you hand-roll one at your desk, then go smoke it.
waste even more time!
- locustsloth0
i would posit that the "stressed nons" here are just stressed people who happen to be non-smokers
i have never habitually smoked cigarettes in my life (cloves a couple times in my late teens, but that's it). i lived in a very small house with 3 smokers. The kind of smokers who would rummage thru the ashtray for a butt that had just a little bit of tobacco in it. Never really bothered me.
In fact, when i first went away for college, when passing someone who was currently smoking, i would actually get homesick, cause it reminded me of friends.
Of course now, as a parent, my view has changed a bit. i have no problem with smokers taking breaks, as long as there's no noticable drop in productivity because of it. but if i see another parent in the car or even in the general vicinity of their child, with a cigarette in their mouths, i feel that disdain for them that miko mentioned- I agree.Jnr_Madison
- Agreed, but it's different if you have a health issue, of course. And the smell gets everywhere.juhls
- colab0
You're supposed to take breaks during the workday. It increases the ability to think objectively and focus. The fact that smokers take breaks to have a cigarette is none of you're business in fact. Just like they have no right to complain that you masturbate in the office bathroom.
- trooperbill0
our boss is pretty cool about this... hes happy for us non smokers to have more breaks throughout the day (hes a smoker)
- kld0
what about parents, always 'gotta leave early to pick up little johnny' or 'little jonny had a boo boo so I'm working from home'
- Yeah, fuck them.Jnr_Madison
- i tend to my child= he survives and thrives
you tend to your addition = you kill yourself slowlylocustsloth - though sometimes i swear my kids are trying to kill melocustsloth
- blaw0
And some people chit-chat in the breakroom, or come back a couple minutes late from lunch, or use the restroom more frequently, or shop online, etc.
You're not getting slighted. It all comes out in the wash. A fair day's work for a fair day's wage.
- blaw0
Also, breaks are encouraged, whether your a smoker or not. Sometimes the best way to solve a problem is to look away or to verbalize it to a co-worker.
I'm a non-smoker, by the way.
- mistermik0
I think its perfectly acceptable to have any extra 6 days off looking super cool and impressing women.
- moth0
They're all gossiping about you too, BaskerviIle.
- moth0
Also - shouldn't have sent us outside to smoke. We were perfectly capable of smoking and working at the same time.